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International Surrogacy and COVID-19

An article in the HeyReprotech newsletter describes how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people involved in international surrogacy arrangements in Canada, including intended parents, surrogates, and newborns.

Surrogacy in Mexico: The Consequences of Poor Regulation

Surrogacy in Mexico: The Consequences of Poor Regulation, a report from GIRE – Information Group on Reproductive Choice, provides a picture of surrogacy regulation in Mexico, including analysis of state and federal laws, description of litigated cases, and recommendations to guarantee human rights protections for all parties involved.

The accompanying video features the stories of two surrogates in Tabasco and two sets of parents: a gay male couple from the U.S. and a Mexican and Argentinian heterosexual couple in Mexico. Both couples would have been prevented from engaging in surrogacy after a new law passed in Tabasco in 2016.

International Principles for Donor Conception and Surrogacy

This set of international principles, intended to safeguard the human rights and best interests of people born from donor conception or surrogacy, call for strict regulation in countries that permit these practices. Examples include the right to identifying information about biological parents, siblings, and surrogate mothers, and prohibitions on transnational surrogacy and donor conception.

Watch the presentation by donor-conceived and surrogate-born people at the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Nov. 19, 2019), which led to the development of these principles.

Legal Basics for LGBTQ Parents

The New York Times Parenting section offers advice from four experts at key LGBTQ legal and policy organizations on navigating parenting options (donor conception, surrogacy, fostering, adoption) in the U.S.